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Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2024). The Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. In Coleman, Tracy ed. Hinduism. Oxford Bibliographies Oxford University Press.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym ed. (2024). A Cultural History of Hinduism in the Age of Late Colonialism. A Cultural History of Hinduism, 5. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2023). A Religion “Based Upon Principles, And Not Upon Persons”: The Heart of the “Strategic Fit” of Swami Vivekananda’s Promotion of Vedānta? International Journal of Hindu Studies, 27 pp. 97–124.

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Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2023). Man-making, Nation-building, and National Reconstruction: The Engaged Hinduism of the RSS and the Vivekananda Kendra. Journal of Dharma Studies, 6 pp. 1–7.

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Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2021). The Making of the Ideal Transnational Disciple: Unravelling Biographies of Margaret Noble/Sister Nivedit. In: Bornet, Philippe ed. Translocal Lives and Religion: Connections between Asia and Europe in the Late Modern World. The Study of Religion in a Global Context. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, pp. 57–88.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2021). Celebrating Heritage, Promoting Tourism, and Relocating Svāmī Vivekānanda: A Study of the Vivekananda Rock Memorial. International Journal of Hindu Studies, 25 pp. 165–191.

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Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2020). The Ramakrishna Math and Mission in Europe. In: Jacobsen, Knut A. and Sardella, Ferdinando eds. Handbook of Hinduism in Europe (2 Vols.). Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia (Volume 35). Leiden: Brill, pp. 422–461.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2020). ‘Vivekananda and his organizational legacy with particular reference to seva within the Ramakrishna Math and Mission’. In: Sherma, Rita ed. The Life, Legacy, and Liberative Ethics of Swami Vivekananda. Explorations in Indic Traditions: Theological, Ethical and Philosophical. Lanham MD: Lexington Press, pp. 89–124.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2020). Swami Vivekananda and his legacy. London: Wise Studies.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2019). [Book Review] Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal by Varuni Bhatia, Oxford University Press, 2017. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 34(2) pp. 406–408.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2015). Introducing the study of religions at The Open University: the scope and limitations of a distance learning approach to the study of religions. In: Brun, Stanley D. ed. The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 3765–3780.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2015). 'Sevā: The Focus of a Fragmented but Gradually Coalescing Field of Study'. Religions of South Asia, 9(2) pp. 208–239.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2014). Eknath Ranade, gurus and jivanvratis: Vivekananda Kendra's promotion of the 'Yoga Way of Life'. In: Singleton, Mark and Goldberg, Ellen eds. Gurus of Modern Yoga. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 327–350.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2012). Media savvy or media averse? The Ramakrishna Math and Mission’s use of the media in representing itself and a religion called “Hinduism”. In: Zavos, John; Kanungo, Pralay; Reddy, Deepa S.; Warrier, Maya and Williams, Raymond eds. Public Hinduisms. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, pp. 398–416.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2011). Teaching about religions of South Asian origin at The Open University: a reflection on the scope and limitations of flexible learning. Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies, 10(2) pp. 61–77.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2011). Seva (service to humanity): a boundary issue in the study of recent and contemporary Hindu movements. Man in India, 91(1) pp. 39–56.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2010). 'An ordinary organisation run by ordinary people': a study of leadership in Vivekananda Kendra. Contemporary South Asia, 18(1) pp. 71–88.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2008). Introduction. In: Beckerlegge, Gwilym ed. Colonialism, Modernity, and Religious Identities: Religious Reform Movements in South Asia. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, pp. 1–20.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2008). Svāmī Vivekānanda’s iconic presence and conventions of nineteenth-century photographic portraiture. International Journal of Hindu Studies, 12(1) pp. 1–40.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2008). Religious Studies and theology in the context of secular higher education: the problem of the “methodological offer”. In: Warrier, Maya and Oliver, Simon eds. Theology and Religious Studies: An Exploration of Disciplinary Boundaries. London: T. & T. Clark, pp. 167–179.

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Beckerlegge, Gwilym ed. (2008). Colonialism, Modernity, and Religious Identities: Religious Reform Movements in South Asia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2008). The Swami and the artist: the use of Indian art in Swami Vivekananda's Apologetics. In: Beckerlegge, Gwilym ed. Colonialism, Modernity, and Religious Identities: Religious Reform Movements in South Asia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 213–238.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2007). Responding to Conflict: A Test of the Limits of Neo–Vedāntic Social Activism in the Ramakrishna Math and Mission? International Journal of Hindu Studies, 11(1) pp. 1–25.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2006). Swami Vivekananda and the sangh parivar: convergent or divergent views on population, religion and national identity? Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy, 9(2) pp. 121–135.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2006). Swami Vivekananda's legacy of service: a study of the Ramakrishna math and mission. India: Oxford University Press.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2004). The early spread of Vedanta societies: an example of 'imported localism'. Numen: International Review for the History of Religions, 51(3) pp. 296–320.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2004). The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's 'Tradition of Selfless Service'. In: Zavos, John; Wyatt, Andrew and Hewitt, Vernon eds. The Politics of Cultural Mobilization in India. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, pp. 105–135.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2004). The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's "tradition of selfless service". In: Zavos, John; Wyatt, Andrew and Hewitt, Vernon Marston eds. The Politics of Cultural Mobilization in India. South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Oxford University Press, pp. 105–135.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2004). Iconographic representations of renunciation and activism in the Ramakrishna Math and Mission and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 19(1) pp. 47–66.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2004). The Hindu Renaissance and notions of universal religion. In: Wolffe, John ed. Religion in History: Conflict, Conversion and Coexistence. Manchester: Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, pp. 129–160.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2003). Saffron and seva: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's appropriation of Swami Vivekananda. In: Copley, Antony ed. Hinduism in public and private: Reform, Hindutva, Gender and Sampraday. Oxford University Press, pp. 31–65.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2001). Computer-mediated religion: religion on the internet at the end of the twentieth century. In: Beckerlegge, Gwilym ed. From Sacred Text to Internet. Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change (1). Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate in association with the Open University, pp. 219–264.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2001). Hindu Sacred Images for the Mass Market. In: Beckerlegge, Gwilym ed. From Sacred Text to Internet. Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change (1). Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate in association with the Open University, pp. 57–116.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2001). Introduction. In: Beckerlegge, Gwilym ed. From Sacred Text to Internet. Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change (1). Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate in association with the Open University, pp. 2–7.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym ed. (2001). From Sacred Text to Internet. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym ed. (2001). The World Religions Reader. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2000). The Ramakrishna Mission: the Making of a Modern Hindu Movement. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (2000). Swami Akhandananda's sevavratra (vow of service) and the earliest expressions of service to humanity in the Ramakrishna Math and Mission. In: Copley, A ed. Gurus and Their Followers : New Religious Reform Movements in Colonial India. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Oxford University Press, pp. 59–82.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (1997). Swami Vivekananda and seva: taking "social service" seriously. In: Radice, W ed. Vivekananda and the Modernization of Hinduism. SOAS studies on South Asia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 158–193.

Beckerlegge, G. (1997). Followers of 'Mohammed, Kalee and Dada Nanuk': the presence of Islam and South Asian religions in Victorian Britain. In: Wolffe, John ed. Religion in Victorian Britain, Volume 5. Manchester, U.K.: Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, pp. 222–267.

Beckerlegge, Gwilym (1994). 'Swami Vivekananda's response to the immorality of "modern famine". In: Das Gupta, R.K. ed. Swami Vivekananda: A Hundred Years Since Chicago - A Commemorative Volume. Belur, West Bengal: Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, pp. 308–321.